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Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1533-2683Verify ISSN ↗1533-2691Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 82 / 233 | 65th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 282 / 744 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 169 / 258 | 34th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 212 / 315 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 82 of 233), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 282 of 744) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 169 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1533-2683 and its online ISSN is 1533-2691.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 26. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.8%), Canada (7.7%) and United Kingdom (4.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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